At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City